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Photo Flash: Celebrate Shark Week- Broadway Style!

By: Aug. 09, 2013
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The rest of the world might be in the midst of obsessing over the fierce monsters of the sea, but fans of Broadway celebrate Shark Week in an entirely different way. Check out a hysterical viral photo as featured on the official Jerome Robbins Facebook page below!

West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. The story is set in the East 40s and West 50s of the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid-1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of the Sharks from Puerto Rico are taunted by the Jets, a Polish-American working-class group.

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